“…But, given the accelerated timescale over which the exercise was undertaken and the shortage of technical planning expertise available to support the process, the prioritization techniques of mapping and ranking were applied less formally. Thus, the full ranking procedure, described in Thunhurst and Barker (1999), was not undertaken. Also, partly as a consequence of the accelerated timescale, but also as a product of the prevailing structures of decision-making within FATA, the procedures were generally undertaken in a less participatory way than envisaged.…”